Matt Garman sees a shift in software development as AI automates coding, telling staff to enhance product-management skills to stay competitive.

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    2 months ago

    It really depends on the domain. E.g. I wrote a parser and copilot was tremendously useful, presumably because there are a gazillion examples on the internet.

    Another case where it saved me literally hours was spawning a subprocess in C++ and capturing stdin/out. It didn’t get it 100% right but it saved me so much time looking up how to do it and the names of functions etc.

    Today I’m trying to write a custom image format, and it is pretty useless for that task, presumably because nobody else has done it before.

    • Repple (she/her)@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      This makes sense, I’ve largely been trying to use it for things I do regularly, and I’m pretty senior, having been in the industry for some time, so I tend not to be asking the questions that will have a million examples out there. But then again, these are the sorts of things that it will need to be able to do to replace people in industry.

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        2 months ago

        I’m pretty senior, having been in the industry for some time, so I tend not to be asking the questions that will have a million examples out there

        Me too, but this was C++ where there isn’t a strong culture of making high quality libraries available for everything (because it doesn’t have a proper package manager, at least until very recently), so you do end up having to reinvent the wheel a fair bit.

        And sometimes you just need things a bit different to what other people have done. So even though there are a gazillion expression parsers out there (so the LLM understood it pretty well) there are hardly any that support 64-bit integers. But that’s a small enough difference that it can deal with it.